Villa-Lobos 17 String Quartets Complete Collection $50.00 - $395.00 EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES Villa-Lobos wrote a total of 17 string quartets and was working on an eighteenth at the time of his death in 1959. None of the quartets appear as mere compositional...
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.3 for Piano and Orchestra $179.50 - $750.00 It is the only Bachiana written in the form of an instrumental concerto. It is in fact a fully-fledged piano concerto about 30 minutes in length, and in four movements. As usual the four movements...
Villa-Lobos Guitar Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra W501 $150.00 - $385.00 Composed in 1951, it was originally called "Fantasia Concertante". World premiere by Andrés Segovia, to whom it was dedicated, and conducted by the composer himself. W501 is the original...
Villa-Lobos: Alvorada na floresta tropical (Dawn in the tropical forest) $119.99 - $595.00 Alvorada na floresta tropical W513 was commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra and written in 1953. In form it is an overture whose performances take eight to eleven minutes.Its form is...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.2 for Orchestra W247 $160.00 - $599.95 Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 is the second of a set of nine suites (1930–45) for various combinations of voices and instruments, in which contrapuntal and harmonic techniques in the manner of J...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 for Orchestra W424 $145.00 - $535.00 As is the usual case with Bachianas Brasileiras, Villa-Lobos stressed the conjunction of Bach and Brazil by giving dual titles in Portuguese to each movement, one reflecting a Bach form, the other...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.7 $189.95 - $745.00 REPRINT SERIES This Bachiana was dedicated to Villa-Lobos' superior, Minister of Education Gustavo Capanema. It is the one that comes closest to the exuberant contrapuntal density of the Choros...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 for String Orchestra $295.00 Score and Set of Parts (5.5.4.4.3) Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 is the only one that does not have double titles (one title based on classical music forms and the other relating to Brazil in some...
Villa-Lobos: Chôros No.10 for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra $79.99 - $699.99 REPRINT SERIES Chôros No. 10 ("Rasga o Coração") is a work for chorus and orchestra written in 1926 by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is part of a series of...
Villa-Lobos: Chôros No.6 $179.99 - $995.00 REPRINT SERIES Chôros No. 6 is an orchestral work written between 1925 and 1942 by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is part of a series of fourteen numbered compositions...
Villa-Lobos: Chôros No.8 for Two Pianos and Orchestra $179.95 - $849.95 REPRINT SERIES Chôros No. 8 was composed in Rio de Janeiro in 1925, and the score is dedicated to the pianist Tomás Terán. It was premiered in Paris on 24 October 1927, at the...
Villa-Lobos: Descobrimento do Brasil Suite No.1 $125.00 - $699.95 Villa-Lobos’s Descobrimento do Brasil (Discovery of Brazil) Suite No. 1 for Orchestra is a programmatic work that musically portrays the discovery of Brazil. Composed with a clear narrative in...
Villa-Lobos: Descobrimento do Brasil Suite No.2 $125.00 - $699.95 Villa-Lobos’s Descobrimento do Brasil (Discovery of Brazil) Suite No. 2 contains three movements: Impressão moura (Moorish Impression) – a rhythmically complex piece with...
Villa-Lobos: Descobrimento do Brasil Suite No.3 $129.99 - $799.95 Composed in 1937 for Humberto Mauro’s film O Descobrimento do Brasil, Suite No. 3 (W 379) comprises three continuous movements—Impressão ibérica (11:15), Festa nas selvas...
Villa-Lobos: Descobrimento do Brasil Suite No.4 $49.95 - $899.95 Heitor Villa-Lobos extracted Suite No. 4 “Descobrimento do Brasil” (W 380) in 1937 from his score for Humberto Mauro’s film of the same name, completing the cycle of four suites...
Villa-Lobos: Fantasia Concertante for Orchestra of Violoncellos $449.95 REPRINT SERIES The full title of this late piece by Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) is Fantasia Concertante for Orchestra of Violoncellos. Composed in 1958, it was recorded in the same year in NYC on...
Villa-Lobos: Fantasia for Saxophone and Small Orchestra $135.00 - $295.00 This concerto, written in 1948 for the French virtuoso Marcel Mule, stands as the cornerstone of the rather limited repertoire for soprano saxophone. It is without a doubt the most popular piece for...
Villa-Lobos: Mômoprecóce Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra W240 $149.95 - $599.95 REPRINT SERIES Heitor Villa-Lobos' Mômoprecóce for Piano and Orchestra (1929) is a vivid celebration of Brazilian Carnival. The work captures the festive, mischievous spirit of the...
